Christmas-themed powertools

Auxiliary members of the southern family

The cat thinks of nothing but murder all day, going by that expression.

Big skies in Christchurch

The Annual Timaru Biketacular, 2017 Edition

POV biking highlights from the Christmas break. 

The Butterfield Diet

MARS RED SKY - Strong Reflection

Gary Clark Jr. - Numb (Live)

Converge - Dark Horse

pg.lost - Terrain

Office buddy

The Physics House Band - Titan

Ghostface Killah - Love Don't Live Here No More

Is there anything the Trump administration can't destroy?

Fun's over, by the sound of it. 

The night LCD Soundsystem played a sex club in Ibiza

Mondo Generator - So High, So Low

Die! Die! Die! - We Built Our Own Oppressors

The town where gap year kids went to die

Rose Windows - Native Dreams

Eric Clapton - Layla (Live Aid 1985)

The obsession is real

(C/o RGK)

A tight fit

Cosy.

First of the season

Thumbs up for branding, thumbs down for drinkability

The time Kanye and Ninja of Die Antwoord played basketball at Drake's house

Space Bats, Attack! - DTY

Dunedin revisited

 Copious amounts of nostalgia over a surprise birthday visit to the old hood. Many boxes ticked. Covered in the photos: the obligatory campus walking tour; revisiting Dunedin jams (over many hours and beers, and enabled by a mountain of equipment; "Bottle" at The Crown; Emerson's Brewery; and a scenic trip back to the airport); 

Ciggy Butt Brain

Three Beat Slide - Summertime is Great (Death Metal Version)

How to make a Death Grips song

R.L. Burnside - Poor Black Mattie

White Lung - Take The Mirror

Lightning Bolt - Snow White (& The 7 Dwarves Fans)

Undergrad

I question whether I really did earn those stamps

System of a Down - Know (Drum Cover)

Worth it for the guy on the pedestrian crossing

Ouch My Face - Pointy Horns

Lightning Bolt - Dream Genie

Late for work

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - East Hastings

Rise of the risers

 

Although it might seem unnecessary, the carpets at the previous house rotted from having the instrument bags sitting on them for so long. Problem solved. 

"Sshh...They're very, very quiet..."

Zildjian L80 cymbals (80% quieter than normal cymbals) and a set of Remo SilentStroke heads (also much quieter than normal heads). Much more neighbour-friendly than the original setup at full-blast.

Also, where is Mitsubishi Electric Guy these days?

The Cleaner

Blue on blue

Christchurch delivers on the sunset front

(C/o RGK)

Meshuggah - Bleed

Feral

Feral from Daniel Sousa on Vimeo.

Mindhunter

I binge-watched the shit out of this. So good.

Heavy lifting

A serious amount of gear moved in one day. 

Suburbia

Stormzy - 4pm in London

Zildjian L80 low-volume cymbals

An excellent early birthday present from RGK and the Christchurch family. Surprisingly quiet - they live up to their marketing promise of being 80% quieter than normal cymbals while still sounding like actual cymbals. New practicing possibilities now unlocked.

Bass Drum of Death - Nerve Jamming (Live)

Death Grips - Klink

Whores - Tell Me Something Scientific

The door of photos is no more

A random selection. The mammoth pack-up process has begun.